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I didn't mind studying.Obviously math and the physical science subjects interestedme more than some of the more artistic subjects,but I think I was a pretty good student.- Alan Shepard

They say any landing you can walk away from is a good one.- Alan Shepard

The excitement really didn't start to build until the trailer -which was carrying me,with a space suit with ventilation and all that sort of stuff -pulled up to the launch pad.- Alan Shepard

You know, being a test pilot isn't always the healthiest business in the world.- Alan Shepard

Later, in the early teens, I used to ride my bike everySaturday morning to the nearest airport,ten miles away, push airplanes in and out of the hangars,and clean up the hangars.- Alan Shepard

I think the sense of family and family achievement,plus the discipline which I received there from thatone-room school were really very helpful in what I did later on.- Alan Shepard

I think all of us certainly believed the statisticswhich said that probably 88% chance of mission successand maybe 96% chance of survival.And we were willing to take those odds.- Alan Shepard

The first plane ride was in a homemade glider my buddy and I built.Unfortunately we didn't get more than four feet off the ground,because it crashed.- Alan Shepard

Of course I was delighted the flight was over,but I still had to worry about cleaning up inside the cabin,I had to worry about the hatch, how to get in the sling,and so on.- Alan Shepard

You may not have any extra talent, but maybe you arejust paying more attention to what you are doing.- Alan Shepard

It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space andrealize that one's safety factor was determined bythe lowest bidder on a government contract.- Alan Shepard

Then there was the challenge to keep doing better and better,to fly the best test flight that anybody had ever flown.That led to my being recognized as one of the more experienced test pilots,and that led to the astronaut business.- Alan Shepard

But when I was selected, after my very first tour of squadron duty,to become one of the youngest candidates for the test pilot school,I began to realize, maybe you are a little bit better.- Alan Shepard

You have to be there not for the fame and glory andrecognition and being a page in a history book,but you have to be there because you believe your talentand ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft.- Alan Shepard

We worked with the engineers in the design and constructionand testing phases in those various areas,then we would get back together at the end of the weekand brief each other as to what had gone on.- Alan Shepard

We wanted to be in great shape, we wanted to be ableto cope with zero gravity,we wanted to be able to cope with accelerations and decelerations and so on.So all of us trained so that we were probably in thebest physical condition we had ever been in up until that point.- Alan Shepard

You've done it in the simulator so many times,you don't have a real sense of being excited when the flight is going on.You're excited before, but as soon as the liftoff occurs,you are busy doing what you have to do.- Alan Shepard

The pilot looked at his cues of attitude and speedand orientation and so on and responded as he wouldfrom the same cues in an airplane,but there was no way it flew the same.The simulators had showed us that.- Alan Shepard

The rocket had worked perfectly, and all I had to dowas survive the reentry forces.You do it all, in a flight like that,in a rather short period of time, just 16 minutes as a matter of fact.- Alan Shepard

Whether you are an astronomer or a life scientist,geophysicist, or a pilot, you've got to be there becauseyou believe you are good in your field,and you can contribute, not because you are going toget a lot of fame or whatever when you get back.- Alan Shepard

So everything turned out fine, and we were given theopportunity to go to Washington and be briefed on the project of man in space,and given the opportunity to choose whether we wanted to get involved or not.- Alan Shepard

I woke up an hour before I was supposed to,and started going over the mental checklist:where do I go from here,what do I do? I don't remember eating anything at all,just going through the physical, getting into the suit.We practiced that so much, it was all rote.- Alan Shepard

What we think, we become.All that we are arises with our thoughts.With our thoughts, we make the world.- The Buddha

Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To know yet to think that one does not know is best;Not to know yet to think that one knowswill lead to difficulty.- Lao Tzu

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.It is what you think about.- Dale Carnegie

Every thought we think is creating our future.- Louise L. Hay

If I feel depressed I will sing.If I feel sad I will laugh.If I feel ill I will double my labor.If I feel fear I will plunge ahead.If I feel inferior I will wear new garments.If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice.If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come.If I feel incompetent I will think of past success.If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals.Today I will be the master of my emotions.- Og Mandino

People should think things out freshand not just accept conventional termsand the conventional way of doing things.- R. Buckminster Fuller

Tolerance is the first principle of community;it is the spirit which conservesthe best that all men think.- Helen Keller

I don't think of all the miserybut of the beauty that still remains.- Anne Frank

To kill an error is as good a service as,and sometimes even better than,the establishing of a new truth or fact.- Charles Darwin

How you think when you losedetermines how long it will be until you win.- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton

The biggest mistake we could ever make in our livesis to think we work for anybody but ourselves.- Brian Tracy

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

If only the people who worry about their liabilitieswould think about the riches they do possess,they would stop worrying.- Dale Carnegie

You can choose to be peaceful right here and now ...it has nothing to do with what other people do or think.- Gerald Jampolsky

Many people allow their needfor other people's approval to control their lives.They spend their lives worrying about what others think of them.- Rick Warren

Exercise free-will.CHOOSE each and every action you make,every thought you think,and every emotion you feel.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Farewell My FriendIt was beautiful as long as it lastedThe journey of my life.I have no regrets whatsoeversave the pain I'll leave behind.Those dear hearts who love and care...And the strings pulling at the heart and soul...The strong arms that held me upWhen my own strength let me down.At every turning of my lifeI came across good friends,Friends who stood by me,Even when the time raced me by.Farewell, farewell my friendsI smile and bid you goodbye.No, shed no tears for I need them notAll I need is your smile.If you feel sad do think of mefor that's what I'll likewhen you live in the heartsof those you love, remember thenyou never die.- Gitanjali Ghei

What you think of me is none of my business.- Terry Cole-Whittaker

Every thought you thinkand every word you speakis affirming something.- Louise L. Hay